Hell Is Empty...

The team are up against an unsub who buries his victims alive. The team need to track him down. Tyler and Penelope are with Voit trying to pluck his memory to see if he knows who this unsub is and if they had prior conversations, this is all a lot for Tyler.

A good episode, the Voit part this week actually enjoyed, he knows most of what he did in the past but there is a disconnect, his empathy and satisfaction in killing is all reversed which poses many ethical questions for the BAU.

The case itself was more lacklustre, the Tara relationship bit, not great, just her girlfriend isn't an interesting character to me, loses me at times.

Overall good, 7.5/10.

I think they're trying to cram too much into each episode. "Criminal Minds" has always leaned into the "hacker trope"... you know, "Garcia, get me a list of all men taller than 6 feet who worked in a store that sold sneakers and who had a mother who had red hair and worked in a diner" sort of thing, but it's getting even more absurd. This week was a great example, it just made no sense. The Unsub had no pattern (he committed one crime and then was planning on doing something quite different) but they were immediately able to identify him, because... "computers?"

The overall drama with Voit is really good, but they either need to pull back on the non-unsub stuff (for example, Tara's relationship, which was painful this week) or maybe expand each episode to 90 minutes to give it some time?